Ananya Roy

11.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
69 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Ananya Roy is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Ananya Roy has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Urban Studies, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Ananya Roy's work include Urban Planning and Governance (28 papers), Urban and Rural Development Challenges (18 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 papers). Ananya Roy is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (28 papers), Urban and Rural Development Challenges (18 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 papers). Ananya Roy collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Ananya Roy's co-authors include Jennifer Robinson, Nezar AlSayyad, Eugene McCann, Kevin Ward, Nicholas De Genova, Ray Bromley, Arif Hasan, Janice E. Perlman, Oren Yiftachel and Alan Gilbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Ananya Roy

67 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2009 2008 2011 2010 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning
    2005 1.2k citations Ananya Roy Journal of the American Planning Association profile →
  2. Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization
    2009 824 citations Ananya Roy Planning Theory profile →
  3. The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory
    2008 782 citations Ananya Roy profile →
  4. Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism
    2011 723 citations Ananya Roy International Journal of Urban and Regional Research profile →
  5. Poverty Capital
    2010 392 citations Ananya Roy profile →
  6. Who's Afraid of Postcolonial Theory?
    2015 263 citations Ananya Roy International Journal of Urban and Regional Research profile →
  7. Dis/possessive collectivism: Property and personhood at city’s end
    2017 210 citations Ananya Roy Geoforum profile →
  8. Debate on Global Urbanisms and the Nature of Urban Theory
    2015 184 citations Ananya Roy et al. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research profile →

Peers

Ananya Roy
Jennifer Robinson United Kingdom
Neil Smith United States
Nik Theodore United States
Loretta Lees United Kingdom
Eugene McCann Canada
Mark Purcell United States
John Friedmann United States
Shenjing He Hong Kong
Oren Yiftachel Israel
Eric Sheppard United States
Jennifer Robinson United Kingdom
Ananya Roy
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Countries citing papers authored by Ananya Roy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ananya Roy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ananya Roy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Roy, Ananya, et al.. (2024). Policing tenancy: the struggle for housing and land in Los Angeles. Urban Geography. 45(8). 1351–1370. 2 indexed citations
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Genova, Nicholas De, et al.. (2020). Practices of Illegalisation. Antipode. 52(2). 352–364. 72 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2019). The city in the age of Trumpism: From sanctuary to abolition. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 37(5). 761–778. 24 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2018). The Potency of the State: Logics of Informality and Subalternity. The Journal of Development Studies. 54(12). 2243–2246. 21 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2017). Dis/possessive collectivism: Property and personhood at city’s end. Geoforum. 80. A1–A11. 210 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roy, Ananya. (2015). What is urban about critical urban theory?. Urban Geography. 37(6). 810–823. 194 indexed citations
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Baker, Tom, Michael Peter Smith, Ananya Roy, et al.. (2015). Reading Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore's Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism. Political Geography. 53. 89–99. 5 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2013). Shifting the Territory of Politics. Territory Politics Governance. 1(2). 113–117. 8 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2012). Ethnographic Circulations: Space–Time Relations in the Worlds of Poverty Management. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 44(1). 31–41. 89 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2011). Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35(2). 223–238. 723 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roy, Ananya. (2011). “We Are All Students of Color Now”. Representations. 116(1). 177–188. 2 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2010). Gender, Poverty, and Transportation in the Developing World. 4 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2009). Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization. Planning Theory. 8(1). 76–87. 824 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roy, Ananya. (2008). Calcutta requiem : gender and the politics of poverty. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 11 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2008). Post-Liberalism: On the Ethico-Politics of Planning. Planning Theory. 7(1). 92–102. 21 indexed citations
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AlSayyad, Nezar & Ananya Roy. (2006). Medieval modernity: On citizenship and urbanism in a global era. Space and Polity. 10(1). 1–20. 110 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2005). Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning. Journal of the American Planning Association. 71(2). 147–158. 1228 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roy, Ananya, et al.. (2003). Urban Informality. 13 indexed citations
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Roy, Ananya. (2001). A “Public” Muse. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 21(2). 109–126. 25 indexed citations

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